Title: The Ethics of Burnout
Subject Classification:  Psychology, Business and Management  
BIC Classification: JM, KJU
BISAC Classification: PHI005000, PSY021000, BUS085000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Jan 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-391-0
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-392-7

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Description

The book presents burnout as an ethical issue. Leading burnout psychologists list the lack of fairness and conflicts of value amongst the causes of burnout and call for better understanding of these themes. The Ethics of Burnout is a response to this call. It starts by asking: Who exactly is responsible for burnout? Why is burnout such a big issue today? Who is left out in the discourse on burnout? How to respond to burnout from a moral point of view? Which moral theory can serve best in addressing burnout? In addressing these and similar questions, the book examines a set of complex and morally relevant external factors (organisational, social, political) as well as internal causes of burnout (personal traits, habits, goals, desires and drives). It unpacks the stigma of burnout. It investigates ethical meanings of success and failure, fairness and prejudice, exploitation (self-exploitation and other-exploitation) and preservation (self-preservation as well as group-preservation), freedom and coercion, boundaries and closeness, idleness and hard work, rest and productivity.

Although the book focuses on work-related burnout, other burnouts are considered too, especially relational, spiritual, digital and moral/ethical burnout. ‘Moral imagination’ serves as a key concept for formulating the ethics of burnout. The overall study is located within care ethics (with elements of virtue ethics).

The book asserts that, ultimately, burnout runs deep. Dealing with it requires deep care. The approach named as ‘restorative ethics’ is proposed as a way of meeting this requirement.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Anna Abram is Principal and Programme Leader of the MA in Contemporary Ethics, Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK

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